Sodium phosphate manufacturing · Illinois

Chicago Heights Innophos

Chicago Heights, IL · ~149 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Heights Innophos runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sodium phosphate manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Chicago Heights Innophos: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Sodium phosphate manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Heights Innophos safety composite

Chicago Heights Innophos scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2022→2024

Chicago Heights Innophos injury rate improved

Chicago Heights Innophos's TCR fell 0.8 from 3.9 in 2022 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.9 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Chicago Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #16/25
  • PHOTO Galata Chemicals, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Galata Chemicals, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Heights Innophos in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Chicago Heights Innophos averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Sodium phosphate manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Chicago Heights Innophos TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Heights Innophos falls in its industry

418 Sodium phosphate manufacturing establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 25 Sodium phosphate manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Chicago Heights Innophos (149 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Heights Innophos
Chicago Heights Innophos (149 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Chicago Heights Innophos has more employees than the Sodium phosphate manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.1 1.9 4 1 0
2023 1.3 0.6 1 1 0
2022 3.9 1.3 2 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · IL · Chicago Heights

418 Sodium phosphate manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Galata Chemicals, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulbrandsen Technologies - LaPorte Facility 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deepwater Chemicals, Inc. 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Prospect 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plocher Construction Company 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broeren Russo Construction, Inc. 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Regional Office - Larson 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Equinox Chemicals 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 732-PL001 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fujifilm Imaging Colorants 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Unique Thrift Store - 129west 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE B&B Direct LLC 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10465 Midtown Detroit 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masaba Inc. 149 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.